The award-winning horror author on stealing from other writers, why she can’t stand pathos and how Mickey Mouse has inspired her new short-story collection Minihorror
Reporting on the trial of a former SS camp guard, the author learns that his own grandfather was an early Nazi in this lucid, timely study of Germany’s fraught reckoning with its past
Opening on a street where Putin planned a conquerors’ parade two years ago, the shop’s very existence speaks of optimism. But an air of resignation prevails
Inspired by a true story about a retired 18th-century army captain turned farmer, Nikolaj Arcel’s brash drama is entertaining, if a little preposterous
When Putin attacked, the novelistswitched his focus to journalism. Two years on, he talks about his new crime series, life in Kyiv, and fiction as an escape from reality
The market for bédé visual storytelling almost doubled over the course of the pandemic, but can the birthplace of Asterix continue to nurture creators?
Borger’s account of how pleas in the Manchester Guardian by Viennese parents trying to rescue their children – one of them his father – from the Holocaust is gripping and powerful
Rimini Protokoll’s new show is part of a series of performances inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses and draws a connection between its Aeolus episode and hypercapitalism
Ten years on from his first, brutal autofiction about growing up gay in a working-class village, the writer talks about his new novel, being a class defector – and how to take on Marine Le Pen